Essential 90s History
History Podcasts
A history of the 1990's. We will be exploring the decade year by year and answering how the 90's changed the world as we know it. We will be releasing new episodes roughly every other week, so we're trying to make at least two new episodes per month. Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy the show! Contact us and/or follow us! email: essential90shistory@gmail.com Twitter: @essential90s Instagram: @essential90shistory website: www.essential90shistory.com
Location:
United States
Genres:
History Podcasts
Description:
A history of the 1990's. We will be exploring the decade year by year and answering how the 90's changed the world as we know it. We will be releasing new episodes roughly every other week, so we're trying to make at least two new episodes per month. Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy the show! Contact us and/or follow us! email: essential90shistory@gmail.com Twitter: @essential90s Instagram: @essential90shistory website: www.essential90shistory.com
Twitter:
@essential90s
Language:
English
Website:
https://essential90shistory.com/
Episodes
Episode 10 -- Major 1990 Events
1/14/2020
In today's episode, Michael and Tim will discuss other major events from 1990. These are events for which we didn't necessarily devote an entire episode, but they are important for understanding the 90's.
Thanks for joining us, and please don't forget to rate and review the show!
Contact us and follow us at the following:
email: essential90shistory@gmail.com
Twitter: @essential90s
Instagram: @ essential90shistory
website: www.essential90shistory.com
Theme music: Hip Hop Vibes by the...
Duration:00:42:53
Episode 9 -- German Unification
12/21/2019
On October 3rd, 1990, East and West Germany officially reunited. This was in many ways another end to the Cold War and a precursor to the European Union, and the effects are still with us today as we debate the effects of globalization and other issues, such as Brexit.
On today's episode Tim and Michael will be discussing German Unification as a major event of 1990, why it was important, and how its effects still resonate today.
Thanks for joining us, and please don't forget to rate and...
Duration:00:20:10
Episode 8 -- There's Just Something About Seinfeld
12/17/2019
In this episode Michael and Tim will be discussing one of the most popular television shows of the 90s (and of all time)...Seinfeld!
Seinfeld was an enormously popular show that had its first season in 1990 and ran for almost the entire decade for a total of nine seasons. The show was well written and innovative and often topical. While in some ways, Seinfeld is a product of its time, it still seems fresh, and still makes you laugh today as it can be seen in syndication almost...
Duration:00:48:06
Episode 7 -- Tim Berners-Lee and the Creation of the World Wide Web
11/23/2019
On Christmas Day of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee created the first web page on the World Wide Web. While the World Wide Web would not be accessible to the outside world until the following year (it was only locally available within CERN, where he was employed), this was the culmination of several different breakthroughs that Berners-Lee had made in the development of an idea he had first sketched a year earlier.
The World Wide Web and the ease with which it allows us to use the Internet is...
Duration:00:41:42
Episode 6 -- Globalization: Do You Want Borscht With That?
11/15/2019
On January 31st the first McDonald’s opened on Pushkin Square in the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. had not yet fallen, but the Iron Curtain was already coming apart. With the first American fast food restaurant opening in Russia, it was clear that things were about to change very quickly in the world, and change they certainly did.
The 90’s are known as a time when the pace of globalization increased at an exponential rate. The barriers to free trade, across borders and even between...
Duration:00:37:14
Episode 5 -- George H. W. Bush...The Most Interesting Man in the World?
10/29/2019
In this episode we will be discussing the 41st president of the United States, George H. W. Bush. Michael and Tim will be discussing his life and career in general and the beginning of his presidency, which takes us up to the beginning of our decade, the 1990s.
Thanks for joining us, and please don't forget to rate and review the show!
Contact us and follow us at the following:
email: essential90shistory@gmail.com
Twitter: @essential90s
Instagram: @ essential90shistory
website:...
Duration:01:05:45
Episode 4 -- Cultural Disruption 89
10/8/2019
In this episode, we'll be discussing the year that was 1989 and all of the cultural events of that year that we think are most emblematic of the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s. Today we'll be talking about influential television, movies, and music on the fourth episode of Essential 90s History Thanks for joining us, and please don't forget to rate and review the show! Contact us and follow us at the following: email: essential90shistory@gmail.com Twitter: @essential90s...
Duration:00:53:30
Episode 3 -- 1989 and the End of History
7/5/2019
Why was 1989 "the End of History?"
Duration:00:35:32
Episode 2 -- The Cold War
7/5/2019
An overview of the Cold War.
Duration:00:56:44
Episode 1 -- Introduction
7/5/2019
Introduction to Essential 90's History
Duration:00:08:35